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"Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independence" or "democracy movement". Sent from my Xiaomi, let's see if it works. Anyway, I always thought if I have to use Am
by dvh 5y ago
"Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independence" or "democracy movement". Sent from my Xiaomi, let's see if it works.
Anyway, I always thought if I have to use American phone backdoored by FBI or Chinese phone backdoored by China, I choose Chinese because they really cannot arrest me, unlike FBI.
- bassman9000 5y agoWhat can you send from your phone that will get you arrested by the FBI, vs what can get you arrested by Chinese forces? Is this a valid comparison?
- dvh 5y agoNice try!
- bassman9000 5y agoYou could always link some news article on the FBI abuses. But you also have a gmail address, so I don't understand the reaction.
- adolph 5y agoHaving a gmail address is important to not stick out. https://www.itstactical.com/intellicom/mindset/gray-man-strategies-101-peeling-away-the-thin-veneer-of-society/ https://www.itstactical.com/intellicom/mindset/gray-man-stra...
- bassman9000 5y agoIf you don't use it for anything interesting, you're sticking out even more. A void can be as revealing. If you're using it for something interesting, well, you're not sticking out in the "not having gmail" camp, but what's the point.
- adolph 5y agoYeah, you also need to subscribe to the Grey Service (tm), which simulates correspondence to your specifications. Tell them I didn’t send you and they will also throw in “for free”* a bug out bag disguised as an ordinary plastic shopping bag from a grocery store. *Shipping and handling extra, depending on your jurisdiction a paper shopping bag may be substituted.
- hughrr 5y agoECHELON! More seriously no platform is trustworthy unless it’s airgapped these days.
- bassman9000 5y agoStill not addressing the critique. We banalize authoritarianism by putting things at the same level, when they should not be.
- squarefoot 5y agoOr 100% (hardware, firmware, software) Open Source.
- everdrive 5y agoExcept your phone is not backdoored by the FBI.
- deadalus 5y agoIt is backdoored by : Pegasus, NSA, CIA, 14 Eyes
- icedistilled 5y agoThere is a difference between having the potential of access versus actually having software installed that scans keywords to phone home about. Wasn't everyone just outraged about apples csam because it could have the potential for intel agencies, like china's to abuse it by claiming political photos were csam?
- Dah00n 5y agoBlocking something != phone home. This is about censorship, not spying. This is no better or worse than DNS filtering. Besides, it is blocking on things like Al-Qaeda too. It's not some list of Freedom words.
- labster 5y agoFive Eyes Burgers & Spies
- selimthegrim 5y agoSo that’s why they’re “going out of business”
- everdrive 5y agoYes, that's right, I have 17 backdoors on my phone. And whatever China is doing is all happening on my phone, except from the 17 actors you've listed.
- lazide 5y agoWell, if you have anything on your Chinese phone (assuming it dead leak/back door back to China) that could get you arrested by the FBI - then whoever in China who had that ability to use it could then blackmail you with threats of arrest by the FBI if they told them, and you’d be in even worse shape right? Especially since then they’d probably have you do things that would result in even more jail time if caught than the original thing. And since your data is transiting international borders all the time, it would make a nice juicy target for the NSA as well!
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- 908B64B197 5y agoInterestingly, people have been trying to flee Lithuania for the US when the USSR was still around, and not the other way around. I wonder if they might be skeptical of another communist regime starting to interfere with the country. Worked so well the last time...
- axiosgunnar 5y ago? Lithuania has been capitalist for 20+ years and quality of life has increased by a lot ever since. the three baltic states are frontrunners in gov digitalization, for example
- dzhiurgis 5y agoLithuania's gov digitalisation is a bit of a farce. To use it - you need to login via your bank or couple of other supremely inconvenient forms of homegrown federated login systems, none of which offer a simple U2F. Then you get a form that 99% of time doesn't work on mobile. When you do fill it, actual government clark picks it, reviews it and 4 weeks later you get a response - "you need to come to the office to verify your identity". Contrast it with NZ - I had to send my documents via post. In 6 years I NEVER had to visit ANY of government agency but I did receive visas and passports, just simply by post (if you have local drivers licence you do get to use local online services, which is a stupid barrier to begin with, but whatever).
- 908B64B197 5y ago> Lithuania has been capitalist for 20+ years and quality of life has increased by a lot ever since. That's what I said. Lithuania had it bad under communism (USSR). Maybe they are simply not interested in having an other communist regime (the CCP) meddle into it's internal affairs.
- axiosgunnar 5y agoAh yes, I agree completely with that
- peoplefromibiza 5y ago
- reginold 5y agoThe scan is not for English words. Extract from table 14.... =================================================== No.: Original - Approximate translation 1 "宗教虔信者阵线", “Front of religious believers”, ... 22 "西藏自由", “Free Tibet”, ... 60 "蒙古独立", “Independence of Mongolia”, 61 "89民运", “89 Democracy Movement”, 62 "基督灵恩布道团", “Christian charismatic mission”, ... 145 "伊斯兰联盟", “Islamic League”, ... 201 "民运", “Democratic Movement”, 202 "妇女委员会", “Women’s Committee”, 203 "伊斯兰马格里布基地组织", “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb”, 204 "人民报", “People’s daily newspaper”, 205 "巴勒斯坦解放组织", “The Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine”,
- felipelemos 5y agoSent from my Xiaomi device: No.: Original - Approximate translation 1 "宗教虔信者阵线", “Front of religious believers”, ... 22 "西藏自由", “Free Tibet”, ... 60 "蒙古独立", “Independence of Mongolia”, 61 "89民运", “89 Democracy Movement”, 62 "基督灵恩布道团", “Christian charismatic mission”, ... 145 "伊斯兰联盟", “Islamic League”, ... 201 "民运", “Democratic Movement”, 202 "妇女委员会", “Women’s Committee”, 203 "伊斯兰马格里布基地组织", “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb”, 204 "人民报", “People’s daily newspaper”, 205 "巴勒斯坦解放组织", “The Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine”, Let's see
- brendoelfrendo 5y agoAre you in mainland China? Because the article clearly states that this functionality is disabled in phones manufactured for export to the West. Edit to add: page 24 of the linked PDF, for reference.
- yumraj 5y agobut can be remotely reenabled at any time: The capability in Xiaomi's Mi 10T 5G phone software had been turned off for the "European Union region", but can be turned on remotely at any time, the Defence Ministry's National Cyber Security Centre said in the report.
- mda 5y agobackdoored by FBI : Which phone is that?